Just in case you were curious...

This article was published in the June 2009 issue of Real Simple Magazine... And just as the title suggests (of the article) I was surprised...

Calorie expenditures that may surprise you... (listed below: Activity = Calories Burned)

• Thinking Thin = 132
  
• Running your finger around the bottom of a frosted cake = 215
• Fretting about whether or not you turned off the iron = 240
• Thumbing through a fitness magazine = 273
• Cleaning out your email inbox = 339
• Opening a bottle of wine = 406
• Waiting on hold with customer service for 20 minutes = 482
• Opening your child's plastic-wrapped Happy Meal toy = 516
• Restraining your hand from reaching into a chip bowl = 602
• Scooping very cold ice cream = 655
• Scooping cold ice cream while fending off three children = 727
• Pacing in front of the pantry door = 826
• Organizing a dinner party in less than 24 hours = 1071
• Juggling seven grocery bags, the mail, and your keys = 1149
• Taking off a wet swimsuit = 1500

After reading and typing this, I have to disagree with everything that's printed here. Either the calories burned are by someone who's GIGANTIC, or has HUGE muscle mass. Seeing that if I walk on a treadmill for an hour, I only burn about 150 calories, but standing in front of the pantry door and pacing burns 826??? WHAT??? That's not right!! I should weigh just over 100lbs if that was the case!!

Hope you had a good laugh!